Amjad Farooq Khan | |
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امجد فاروق خان | |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 13 August 2018 – 10 August 2023 | |
Constituency | NA-190 (Dera Ghazi Khan-II) |
In office 1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018 | |
Constituency | NA-171 (D.G.Khan-I) |
Personal details | |
Born | Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan | September 4, 1950
Political party |
PTI (2018-2022) Independent (2018) PMLN (1993-2018) Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (1988-1993) Pakistan Muslim League (1985-1988) |
Relations |
Zulfiqar Ali Khosa (Cousin) Dost Muhammad Khosa (Nephew) Latif Khosa (Cousin) Muhammad Saif-ud-Din Khosa (Nephew) |
Sardar Muhammad Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa ( Urdu: سردار محمد امجد فاروق خان کھوسہ; born 4 September 1950) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously he was a member of the National Assembly between 1990 and May 2018 and was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2008 to 2013.
He was born on 4 September 1950 in Dera Ghazi Khan. [1] According to PILDAT, he was born on 1 January 1949. [2]
He graduated from Government College University. He first obtained degree of Bachelor of Arts and then received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1971 from the Punjab University Law College. [1]
He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from Constituency PP-187 (Dera Ghazi Khan) in 1985 Pakistani general election. [3]
He ran for the seat of the National Assembly as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) from Constituency NA-132 (Dera Ghazi Khan) in 1993 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 65,002 votes and lost the seat to Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din Anwar, a candidate of PPP. [4]
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-132 (Dera Ghazi Khan) in 1997 Pakistani general election. He received 73,302 votes and defeated Sardar Mansoor Ahmad Khan, an independent candidate. [4]
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-171 (D.G.Khan-I) in 2013 Pakistani general election. [5] [6] [7] [8] He received 62,849 votes and defeated Khawaja Sheraz Mehmood. [9]
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-190 (Dera Ghazi Khan-II) in 2018 Pakistani general election. [10] Following his successful election, he announced to join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in August 2018. [11]
In October 2015, seven people were killed after a bomb exploded inside the political office of Khan in Taunsa tehsil, District DG Khan. Khan was not present in his office at the time of the blast. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan splinter group Jamaat Ul Ahrar claimed the responsibility for the attack. [12]
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